Lyrics:

Now the parking lot is empty
Everyone's gone someplace
I pick you up and in the trunk I've packed
A cooler and a 2-day suitcase
'Cause there's a place we like to drive
Way out in the country
Five miles out of the city limit we're singing and your
Hand's upon my knee

So we're okay
We're fine
Baby I'm here to stop your crying
Chase all the ghosts from your head
I'm stronger than the monster beneath your bed
Smarter than the tricks played on your heart
We'll look at them together then we'll take them apart
Adding up the total of a love that's true
Multiply life by the power of two

You know the things that I am afraid of
I'm not afraid to tell
And if we ever leave a legacy
It's that we loved each other well
'Cause I've seen the shadows of so many people
Trying on the treasures of youth
But a road that fancy and fast ends ends in a fatal crash
And I'm glad we got off
To tell you the truth

'Cause we're okay
We're fine
Baby I'm here to stop your crying
Chase all the ghosts from your head
I'm stronger than the monster beneath your bed
Smarter than the tricks played on your heart
We'll look at them together then we'll take them apart
Adding up the total of a love that's true
Multiply life by the power of two

All the shiny little trinkets of temptation (make new friends)
Something new instead of something old (but keep the old)
All you gotta do is scratch beneath the surface (but remember what is gold)
And it's fools gold
Fools gold (what is gold)
Fools gold (what is gold)

Now we're talking about a difficult thing
And your eyes are getting wet
I took us for better and I took us for worse
Don't you ever forget it
And now the steel bars
Now the steel bars between me and a promise
Suddenly bend with ease
And the closer I'm bound in love to you
The closer I am to free (free)So we're okay
We're fine
Baby I'm here to stop your crying
Chase all the ghosts from your head
I'm stronger than the monster beneath your bed
Smarter than the tricks played on your heart
We'll look at them together then we'll take them apart
Adding up the total of a love that's true
Multiply life by the power of two

Bought this album today and I love it and the Indigo Girls Rock! P_o_T!

Charlie wrote: You said it much better than I could have. I might have added a "really" in there somewhere, perhaps, as in "really gratingly sophmoric."

Arg, I hate to be negative, but the Indigo Girls are like fingernails on a chalkboard to me. I find their lyrics to be gratingly sophomoric and their musical progresssions forced and pointless. Ouch. One of the things I liked about RP is that it has been an oasis void of Indigo Girls (until tonight). Less of this stuff, please. I hate to be negative.

This isn't my favorite IG song . . . but man, can those two sing together, or what? Awesome live act, too. . . .

a wonderful cut from a fantastic album. the IG's lyrics mix hope with tragedy so well. :meditate.gif:

Love this upbeat tune. Great start to a dreary Friday morning.

Bill and Rebecca are in the ZONE this A.M.

Play this again, please!